Prenatal exposure to bisphenol A impacts midbrain dopamine neurons and hippocampal spine synapses in non-human primates

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 113-120

  Elsworth, John D ^a   Jentsch, J David ^b   VandeVoort, Catherine A ^c   Roth, Robert H ^a   Eugene Redmond, D ^a   Leranth, Csaba ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisphenol A; Dopamine; Hippocampus; Prenatal; Spine synapse; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; DOPAMINE; SEROTONIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHLOROCEBUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITIC SPINE; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATION PERIOD; GLUTAMATERGIC NERVE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MESENCEPHALON; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DENDRITIC SPINES; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MESENCEPHALON; PHENOLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEROTONIN; SYNAPSES; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84873472642     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: 18729711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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